The NBC daytime speak present, which kicked off its fifth season on Monday, now tapes at 30 Rock in New York Metropolis.
It is a main relocation for the present, which spent its first 4 seasons at Common Metropolis Studios in Los Angeles. This is Kelly (with the solid of Barbie) in her previous studio:
The rationale for the transfer has all the things to do with Kelly Clarkson’s private life, and the host has been opening up in latest interviews about why she moved her present throughout the nation.
“I’ll be actual trustworthy: I assumed I used to be making a horrible resolution,” she instructed USA At this time in an interview revealed on Monday.
“I knew I wanted a recent begin and couldn’t be in LA. I actually needed to be in Montana, however you possibly can’t actually do a present from there fairly but,” she continued. “So I used to be like, ‘The one different possibility would in all probability be New York.'”
Kelly has a ranch in Montana that she calls residence, and the recent begin she mentions possible needed to do with the top of her marriage to Brandon Blackstock. In line with Individuals, the previous couple, who’re mother and father to 2 kids, settled their divorce in March of final 12 months.
Now in New York, Kelly apparently would not have any regrets in regards to the resolution to arrange store on the East Coast.
“I genuinely adore it, and I really like that my children adore it,” she additionally instructed USA At this time of dwelling in New York.
Nonetheless, the prospect of shifting her speak present in its fifth season out of Los Angeles initially involved her. “It’s like, why would I destroy it, proper?” she instructed the Every day Beast’s Obsessed in one other interview additionally revealed on Monday.
“Why would I modify one thing, from a enterprise standpoint? However personally, I used to be actually not doing properly, and had not been for years in that metropolis. I knew I wanted a recent begin, however I simply didn’t need to come off as ungrateful,” she continued.
Plainly horrible resolution she was nervous she’d made did not prove unhealthy in any respect. Kelly defined she’s already beginning to really feel at residence in 30 Rock. In line with the Every day Beast, her first episode in New York even featured quite a few NBC legends, together with Hoda Kotb, Jenna Bush Hager, Seth Meyers, and Jane Krakowski.
“Everybody on this constructing, plenty of them are folks identified for over 20 years of coming out and in of this constructing,” she instructed the Every day Beast. “There was this camaraderie even earlier than we shot our first episode. That’s the vibe of 30 Rock for me, so it already looks like residence.”
